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    any drs. out there? have a question about crones

    I am not a doctor but like others here I have had some experience with this. I am not sure why your gastro guy has not told her to stay away from certain foods. Pickles any veggie uncooked,caffine,high in fat foods, grapes, and stress. Have her keep a food diary and if she gets a flair up she...
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    Nitrate Help

    By closed loop do you mean somthing like this?
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    Nitrate Help

    buy just getting power MJ or how do I achive this?
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    Nitrate Help

    the canister says about 260 gallons per hour(pump output) 185 gallons oer hour (filter circulation). So do you think that this is my problem with my nitrate? So do you think I should get another maxijet 900?
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    Nitrate Help

    No that it. How do you figure out what your turn over rate is? I am taking that this is probaly my problem?
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    Nitrate Help

    No not yet I have to get on that hangs on to the tank because I only have a canister filter. Waiting for the husband to move out the tank so I can fit one back there. As for water flow over the sand bed there really isn't any I do have maxijet 900 but it pretty much pointed up to the surface.
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    Nitrate Help

    My Quetion is how do I lower my Nitrates? Alright so here iswhat I have. I have a 46 gal bow with about 40lbs of LS and 25lbs of lr I have 304 Fluval and standard lighting I use R/O water Do standard water changes abut 15gal a week Have timed fish when feed them 1 1/2 min feed them pellets...
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    What brand

    Does anyone perfer ant brand of refractometer over another looking to buy one and not sure what one to buy?
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    Orange Crush Acanthastrea

    Does anyone know anyhting about these. Orange Crush Acanthastrea
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    Putting Faces to the Names

    Alright I looked and looked. It seems to me I am always the one behind the camera taking the pics. So this is pretty much all I could find. It's a pic of me and youngest son - his 3rd birthday party.
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    what kind of lighting should I get?

    Originally Posted by WRIGLEY11 I completely understand having a wife myself - she would kill me if I mounted a Metal Halide in the formal room. Hey I am the wife my husband bought me the tank for x-mas. So you think I should go with VHO and 5watts or more per gallon should be enough. I do...
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    what kind of lighting should I get?

    Hey I am the wife my husband bought me the tank for x-mas. So you think I should go with VHO and 5watts per gallon should be enough. I do have a so called canopy it's a plastic peice of s!&% fi you know what I mean. So hard to get in and out of it considering I am only 5' tall and it stands...
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    what kind of lighting should I get?

    what is the difference between all my lighting choices right now all I have are standard light that came with my tank from coralife. What kind of wattage do think then. I really didn't want to hang anything from my ceiling though I have my tank in my living room (it's semi formal). (do you...
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    what kind of lighting should I get?

    I am still a newbie tank had been set up since early January. Right now I just have a 46 Gal bow front ( 37"wide 21" height 12 1/2" deep) FOWLR tank and I was wanting to add some zoos in the near future and maybe some other polyps and do not want to change light fixtures everytime I decided to...
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    Need Help Confused and frustrated

    it wasn't the dip sticks it was aquarium pharmaceuticals. Like Hagfish said Mr. Kee also said the same thing. The fish are showing no signs of anything being wrong. And all the fish are alright and so are the inverts that's why I couldn't figure what was causing the problem even after I did...
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